Wellington Club Weekly / December 2020
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Jubilee Cup winning captains XV
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- The Jubilee Cup for Wellington club rugby supremacy has been contested every year since 1929, with some 19 clubs winning the title over nine decades. See a XV below made of up winning Jubilee Cup captains. As with these sorts of posts the below is not a definitive list or best of list, rather a...
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Short Passes 21 December (Season’s Greetings edition)
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- What a ride! It’s the end of 2020, and may we end this year with some Christmas cheer before wiping the slate clean and blasting into 2021. Club Rugby wishes everyone a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year and thanks everyone for their ongoing support. Look out for our annual Christmas Day article...
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2021 Swindale Shield draw released
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- The run up to the southern hemisphere’s most hotly contested local rugby competition starts today, with the release of the 2021 Wellington club rugby Swindale Shield draw. The 2021 season starts a little later this year, with opening day on Saturday 10 April. That is the date for the first of 13 games on consecutive...
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Sweet Sevens Success for St Mary’s
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- By Scott MacLean For only the second time in the event’s history, one of the Cup titles at the Condor Sevens is making it’s way to the capital. This time it’s St Mary’s College and their Under 15 side who are champions – emulating the 2016 success of their senior side – after beating Auckland’s...
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Hamilton and Howick heroes at colossal Condor Sevens
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- The Hamilton Boys’ High School team that won their school a sixth consecutive Condor Sevens title. PHOTO: HBHS Facebook By Adam Julian With 40 plus referees, 50 teams (30 boys, 20 girls – that’s 600-odd players in addition to a platoon of coaches and management) competing in 170 matches on four fields, backed by 29...
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Change in structure for 2021 club season agreed upon
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- WRFU release: Wellington Rugby Football Union’s 14 premier clubs have agreed on a structure for the 2021 Men’s Premier competition. Two options were presented by a working group made up of Club Chairs and Delegates who proposed competition formats in line with club feedback, and existing representative programmes. Central to the working group’s recommendations was...
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Seven Wellington teams heading to Condor Sevens
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- By Scott MacLean This week sees the final act of the rugby season, with college Condor Sevens taking place once again at Auckland’s King’s College. This year seven Wellington teams will venture north, with a twist on this year’s event. Owing to its place on the schedule and with other events on, the Open tournament...
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Nine Wellington teams heading to Condor Sevens
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- By Scott MacLean This week sees the final act of the rugby season, with college Condor Sevens taking place once again at Auckland’s King’s College. This year a record nine Wellington teams will venture north, with a twist on this year’s event. Owing to its place on the schedule and with other events on, the...
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Short Passes 7 December – news in briefs and happenings
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- The fifteens season is over, but resumes early in the New Year when the Super Rugby teams embark on their pre-season programmes. The representative sevens season is all but over, just this coming weekend’s Condor Sevens in Auckland to come. We will preview this from a Wellington schools perspective in a couple of days. +++++...
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Patafilo included in Hurricanes squad
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- Tawa outside back and Wellington Lion Pepesana Patafilo has joined the Hurricanes for 2021. Patafilo and Hawke’s Bay wing Lolagi Visinia have filled up the final two spots for next year. Patafilo is a former Wellington College First XV centre, in the 2013 winning team captained by his new Hurricanes teammate James Blackwell and featuring...
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Luke Campbell joins Hurricanes
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- Former Wellington College, Wellington U19s and Old Boys University halfback is joining the Hurricanes in 2021, from Bay of Plenty where he has been based for the past four years. Campbell says to achieve the goal with his hometown team is a surreal feeling. “It’s hard to describe how it feels, but it really is...
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